Abstract
The word "access" means to enter into, participate in, and engage with, and captions for sounds are a way to provide
access
to video content for persons with disabilities. Trying to capture an absolute way for captioning sounds in video media texts is as illusive, impossible, and unethical as trying to establish or declare a single way to write or to read a text. Sean Zdenek's book
Reading Sounds
investigates the practices that create captions and examines captions as a rhetorical artifact related to the composition of video. This review will examine
Reading Sounds
from the perspective of a practitioner in the area of web, classroom, and information communication technology accessibility and an academic focused on communication design and disability, indicating points relevant to both practitioners and academics.